On this day 250 years ago, the Boston Evening Post reported on how the people of Plymouth pressured George Watson to resign from the Massachusetts Council. Watson was appointed to the Council by Governor Gage under the authority of the hated Massachusetts Government Act which abolished Massachusetts’s elected Council and replaced it with appointed Councilors. After returning to Plymouth

When he came into the House of publick Worship, a great number of the principal Inhabitants of that Town left the Meeting-House immediately upon his entering it; ‘being determined not to worship in fellowship with one, who has sworn to support that change of our constitution, which professedly establishes despotism among us.’

Watson later wrote to Governor Gage to explain that

By my accepting of this Appointment, I find that I have rendered myself very obnoxious, not only to the inhabitants of this place, but also to those of the neighboring towns. On my business as a Merchant I depend, for the support of myself and Family, and of this I must be intirely deprived, in short, I am reduced to the alternative of resigning my Seat at the Council Board, or quitting this, the place of my Nativity

Source: https://allthingsliberty.com/2017/03/country-crowds-revolutionary-massachusetts-mobs-militia/#_edn19